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Saddam Hus­sein is a better leader than Diane Tebelius.

Sound Politics: Esser to challenge Tebelius?

Schopenhauer's entire conception thus is diametrically opposed to Cartesianism's and classical liberalism's ontology of in-der-Welt-sein, which is built on the cogito as a self-originating and supposedly value-neutral point of departure.

The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction

Even though the prescriptivists are using Latin as their model, English is also a Germanic language; and in German, the nominative (subjective) case is used after "sein" (to be), but after no other verb.

On all and all

The verb "sein" (be) was very much distorted: _Warum warst du nicht fleissig gebist?

The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.

By lampenfieber» Blogarchiv » Heiliger Schein, das kann doch nur ne Lampe sein. on March 2, 2009 at 3: 59 pm

Kozom Floor Lamp

Ce serait un geste honorable qui ferait baisser la pression sur la ministre, et qui éviterait que la suspicion ne s'installe au sein du caucus adéquiste.

Archive 2009-04-01

He said: "Arroganz ist die Kunst, auf seine eigene Dummheit stolz zu sein"—arrogance is the art to take pride in one's own stupidity.

There's Smart and There's Wise, Humble and Effective

There was one line of verse that had survived: Das ist was es ist allein zu sein.

In Search of the Bearded Lady « A Fly in Amber

Incidentally, I am rather tickled by the especially turgid German rendering of “Malo malo malo malo,” namely “Ich möchte lieber in einem Apfelbaum sein als ein schlechter Mann im Unglück,” which proves that strict case structure of a language does not necessarily guarantee anything remotely like concision.

MALO MALO MALO MALO

Incidentally, I am rather tickled by the especially turgid German rendering of “Malo malo malo malo,” namely “Ich möchte lieber in einem Apfelbaum sein als ein schlechter Mann im Unglück,” which proves that strict case structure of a language does not necessarily guarantee anything remotely like concision.

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